Sentence examples for of libretto from inspiring English sources

Sellars has lately adopted a documentary style of libretto writing, compiling texts from memoirs, letters, and historical accounts.

There were frictions with June Jordan; she accused me of "libretto violations" – in Berkeley, a kind of statutory rape!

Van Hove treats the text as a kind of libretto, punctuating Miller's flat words with effects, such as the portentous beating of a small drum offstage as Eddie spins more and more out of control.

Whereas until the end of the 19th century there were writers practiced in the art of libretto writing and thoroughly schooled in the repertoire, in the 20th century, it was left in the hands of dilettantes.

Indeed, van Hove treats the text as a kind of libretto, punctuating Miller's flat words with effects, such as the portentous beating of a small drum offstage as Eddie spins more and more out of control, like the frantic characters in Bausch's 1975 rendition of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring," another piece about individuality and the community.

And so the screenplay also became a kind of libretto, working out relationships in musical terms, pitting Dickie's identification with jazz, its mantra of freedom and existentialism, against Ripley's classicism and asserting that, just as in music, where truly great extemporising begins with Bach and Mozart, so it is Ripley who proves to be the more genuine improviser.

The British director Jeremy Sams, who is also a composer and translator of librettos, is writing the text.

Her translations of librettos, editions of Weill's music and correspondence, mentorship of performers, and passionate advocacy for the composer's oeuvre live on as lasting monuments.

The Met even has a backstage kitchen for meeting the culinary demands of librettos, and singers regularly face the challenge of timing bites between musical phrases.

Scribe, the primary author of all these, was the most productive librettist of his time, writing with the help of various collaborators a large number of librettos for many composers, including Auber, Cherubini, Gaetano Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Rossini, and others.

Also included are manuscripts of librettos for Prokofiev's operas, and drawings and scenic design details for the ballets that Prokofiev worked on with Diaghilev, which Mr. Morrison said would be "of enormous interest to dance researchers".